I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 101 Why don’t you go downstairs?
Chagan Temur's rapid collapse was something Toghto had never expected.
After the news spread, the Yuan army quickly lost its advantage over the peasant army.
The rebel forces in various places became increasingly powerful and launched phased counterattacks against the imperial garrisons.

Zhang Shicheng, who sold contraband salt, led his three brothers and 14 salt friends, and quickly organized a group of temporary armed forces under the banner of "promoting science, overthrowing the corrupt Yuan Dynasty, believing in God, and gaining eternal life". They killed the salt field officials and went to the homes of various wealthy people who bought salt on credit to collect debts.

Some wealthy families gathered to protect their homes and organized a counterattack, but they were killed by the rebels or driven into the sea and drowned.

Taking advantage of the defeat of the Yuan army, Zhang Shicheng quickly captured Taizhou, Xinghua and other places and established his capital in Gaoyou.

At this time, Xu Shouhui, who was influenced by Liu Futong, was also overjoyed when he heard the news.
He led thousands of court officials, established the capital in Xishui County, named the country Tianwan, and was the first to raise the banner of open anti-Yuan sentiment.

Although Xu Shouhui's territory was small, he had a grand show.

He had only a few thousand people under his command, but he set up a series of official positions including the Marshal's Office, the Secretariat, the Privy Council, and the Six Central Ministries.

More than half of his men had become officials, and he was originally worried about where to recruit some younger brothers to consolidate his team. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang's great victory on the front battlefield caused the prestige of the court to drop to freezing point.

A large number of peasants sought local rebel forces to join the fight against the Yuan Dynasty, and Xu Shouhui's Tianwan regime naturally won a lot of praise.

After all, which rebel army had such a perfect official department?
This guy is a regular soldier! Add him!
At the same time,
Liu Futong, who was originally supposed to compete against Chagan Temur and Li Siqi in Yingzhou, also successfully took off because he was no longer suppressed by Chagan Temur.

The peasant war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty turned directly from a defensive position to an offensive that spread everywhere.

The instigator of this incident had already returned to the Utopia in the mountains with several of his trusted followers.

Tianyu smacked his lips as he listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's report on the current situation:

"Yes, TNT is more effective when used for the first time. If the enemy is prepared, its lethality will be very limited."

The 4-minute explosion time of TNT means that this projectile attack method has considerable room for dodging.

With a diameter of ten meters, let alone four minutes, even 4 seconds is enough for the enemy to easily escape from the explosion range of ten meters.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to let the soldiers ignite the TNT in advance.

Because TNT can explode instantly like firecrackers.
If one of them exploded in our own position it would definitely be a disaster.

Tianyu touched his chin and continued to suggest:

"But you can consider using it as a mine defense by burying additional pressure plates, or you can bury it directly and use a redstone circuit to detonate it."

Mine Warfare and Tunnel Warfare are movies that Tianyu has watched since he was a child. When he watched them as a child, he felt overwhelmed by the various booby traps and land mines.

It can be said that at this stage, using pressure plates to use TNT as mines is the most efficient way to utilize TNT.

It's a pity that this method is only suitable for defending the city and not for attacking.
As for the method of projecting TNT blocks, the enemy will probably find a pattern to dodge it after two attempts at most, and by then the effect will be even worse than that of ordinary artillery.

However, using TNT to attack a city is very useful.
With the current defensive city walls, it is absolutely impossible to withstand the explosion damage of TNT. To Zhu Yuanzhang, the city walls are like paper.

But the weakness of TNT in MC is also very obvious. You only need to find a basin of water to extinguish it.

If it is in the water, TNT will immediately become a dud with no damage, and now TNT is greatly restricted in river crossing operations.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to avoid using TNT during battles, in order to expose this weakness later and use TNT to achieve greater results.

Fortunately, the Yuan army in the north came to cause trouble.

Zhu Yuanzhang directly used TNT to start the new season's melee mode at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, which can be said to have achieved remarkable results.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled innocently and echoed Tianyu's words.

Tianyu had actually already used the methods he mentioned on the battlefield a long time ago.

After all, Tianyu was a hermit who worked for three days and rested for two days, and his development of MC blocks was not even as good as that of the natives. Zhu Yuanzhang had been working with the militia to develop redstone technology and TNT to the maximum extent according to scientific thinking.

Although he is not much better than Tianyu in terms of experience, he is not much worse either.

Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his hands and complimented Tianyu:
"The advice given by the Earth Lord is refreshing to me. I believe that we will be able to win the next battle. However, I am here to ask the Earth Lord another question this time."

Tianyu was in a very good mood listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's compliments.

"Tell me, what's the problem?"

Zhu Yuanzhang took out a map and pointed at the Yangtze River and said with a sad face:

"Lord Landlord, this time I mainly want to ask you to come out. We don't have any navy, and Yuan Gou has deployed 500,000 soldiers on the other side of the river to defend it, so we hope you can build a road on the river, or build a few ships."

Tianyu frowned when he heard this.
He could build a boat, but it was a small boat for two people, and at most four people. It was fine for going out to sea to fish, but there was no way he could use it as a warship.

As for bridge building,

He knew very well that Zhu Yuanzhang and others could use pistons to build MC buildings.
Even if I didn't go, they could easily build a floating bridge across the Yangtze River, it would just be a little slower.

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to understand Tianyu's doubts.

He said somewhat embarrassedly:

"The Yuan army is watching us too closely. Scouts patrol the shore every day. Before we can reach the other side of the river, we are bombarded by the enemy. We can't cross the river at all."

The reason why the Yangtze River is called a natural barrier is that it is naturally incomparable to those small inland rivers.

Even though the river channel at Cai Shi Ferry is a narrow area, the distance between the two banks is more than 5000 meters.

Each deployment of the piston can advance eight meters. It would take at least a week to build a stone bridge over the Yangtze River.

The problem is, will the Yuan army watch you build a bridge on the river?

If they can't reach the island in the middle of the river, they will probably be attacked by the Yuan army's navy.

It’s because Zhu Yuanzhang didn’t have naval escort.

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang also took the opportunity to capture Huang Chao's navy. Although it was just a bunch of small fishing boats, it was still a water combat force.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not even have a small fishing boat. Besides, even if he had a fishing boat, it would be of no use.
This time, the Yuan army did not take Zhu Yuanzhang lightly as they did in history.
This time, several surrounding ferry crossings stockpiled 50 soldiers and waited for Zhu Yuanzhang to deliver them in batches.

In particular, after Tuotuo learned that his own northern army had been defeated, he directly raised his vigilance against Zhu Yuanzhang to MAX.

He strictly ordered the Caishi garrison not to let Zhu Yuanzhang cross the river even at the cost of his life.

After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's distress, Tianyu also fell into deep thought.
What you mean is that you don't dare to go up, and then you want me to build a bridge under firepower to pave the way for you?

What a joke! Although my current level is not low and my defense is high, I can't withstand the bombardment of tens of thousands of muskets and cannons. Even if each cannon only loses half a drop of blood, it is enough to kill me without leaving any ashes.

The most important thing is that you cannot be resurrected on the battlefield. If you die, you are really gone.

Tianyu pondered for a moment and looked at the items in his backpack. Suddenly, his eyes set on a wooden door left over from building a house, and his eyes lit up.

"How about...you go underwater?"

(End of this chapter)